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Watchdog Feature Request: allows dream linkage to INDI ALLSky and INDI Watchdog

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<strong>Watchdog Feature Request: allows dream linkage to INDI ALLSky and INDI Watchdog. Provides heartbeat HOST IP and execution HOST IP.</strong>

Hi Mr. Mutlaq and Mr. aaronwmorris,

Thank you for providing such an amazing tool !

INDI ALLSky offers an amazingly powerful detection service that can provide full warning when clouds are available : github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky/
* Pseudo-Sky Quality Meter - Use your all sky camera to measure sky brightness/quality

Watchdog offers the perfect Park and Dome shutdown service : www.indilib.org/aux/watchdog.html

1. Park Mount: The mount driver specified under Options tab will be commanded to park. After parking is successful, the driver proceeds to the next step, otherwise it aborts the shutdown procedure.
2. Park Dome:The dome driver specified under Options tab will be commanded to park.
3. Execute Script:Execute a custom shutdown script as specified in the settings property. The script must be executable and exits successfully for this operation to be considered successful.

I think if the two were combined, what a perfect observatory control warning system would be to perform park before closing the top.
Because many larger telescopes are set horizontally to park position to avoid collision with the dome.

This requires a new distinction in Watchdog between heartbeat hosts and Shutdown execution hosts.

This requires a new distinction in Watchdog between heartbeat hosts and Shutdown execution hosts. We can process the INDI ALLSky data into some kind of state heartbeat to match Watchdog's listening needs and achieve smarter Shutdown timing.

Note that INDI ALLSky still does not integrate temperature, humidity, and barometric charts from INDI weather sensors. At least the current cloud identification is already very powerful, and it would be more powerful to combine temperature, humidity, and barometric charts to link Watchdog.

If INDI ALLSKY never integrates weather sensors, Watchdog provides multiple heartbeat hosts, or at least one heartbeat host, forcing us to process the data from the weather sensors together with the data from ALLSKY identification to create a relay heartbeat service.

Typically I use a simple Onstep with 3 sensors-- Temperature Humidity Pressure.
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For my typically usage, Onstep provide three sensors (Temperature-Humidity-Pressure) which could perfectly run 1915 zambretti weather methods. And here is a simple source code.

Wondering if INDI ALLSKY or INDI Wathdog could add the 1915 zambretti weather alerts.

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